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Tucows on new TLDs, 2013 RAA, and Advertising
Tucows CEO Elliot Noss discusses the domain name business in the company’s latest investor call. Tucows released Q4 2013 earnings and held its investor conference call this week. Here are some highlights: * Tucows started charging for WHOIS pri...
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Tucows on new TLDs, 2013 RAA, and Advertising
Tucows CEO Elliot Noss discusses the domain name business in the company’s latest investor call. Tucows released Q4 2013 earnings and held its investor conference call this week. Here are some highlights: * Tucows started charging for WHOIS pri...
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February 13, 2014, 3:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
BusinessForSale.com survives UDRP
BusinessESforSale.com (plural) failed to show it had trademark rights in its descriptive name. Although there are many benefits to using a good descriptive domain name, there’s also a drawback: other people can use similar domains, too. That&rs...
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BusinessForSale.com survives UDRP
BusinessESforSale.com (plural) failed to show it had trademark rights in its descriptive name. Although there are many benefits to using a good descriptive domain name, there’s also a drawback: other people can use similar domains, too. That&rs...
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February 12, 2014, 6:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
30 end user domain name sales up to $150,000
$150,000 purchase among end user domain name transactions at Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a look at some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. (See more end user reports here.) D...
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30 end user domain name sales up to $150,000
$150,000 purchase among end user domain name transactions at Sedo last week. Sedo sold $1.7 million worth of domain names last week. Here’s a look at some of the domain names that were purchased by end users. (See more end user reports here.) D...
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February 12, 2014, 5:11 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Web and .Webs: “There can be only one”
.Web and .webs top level domain name applications are now in a contention set. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has handed in its final determination for the controversial String Confusion Objection process. In this case, Web.com won a...
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.Web and .Webs: “There can be only one”
.Web and .webs top level domain name applications are now in a contention set. The International Centre for Dispute Resolution has handed in its final determination for the controversial String Confusion Objection process. In this case, Web.com won a...
Discussion
February 12, 2014, 4:07 pm
Domain Name Wire
ICANN plays “make believe” with string confusion review process
ICANN pretends other inconsistencies don’t exist so it can resolve two of the most embarrassing ones. Yesterday ICANN posted a proposal for dealing with “perceived inconsistencies” in String Confusion Objections filed over new top l...
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ICANN plays “make believe” with string confusion review process
ICANN pretends other inconsistencies don’t exist so it can resolve two of the most embarrassing ones. Yesterday ICANN posted a proposal for dealing with “perceived inconsistencies” in String Confusion Objections filed over new top l...
Discussion
February 12, 2014, 3:46 pm
Domain Name Wire
Video Game industry fails to beat Amazon.com’s .Game
No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a commun...
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Video Game industry fails to beat Amazon.com’s .Game
No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a commun...
Discussion
February 11, 2014, 8:18 pm
Domain Name Wire
Check out what this company did with its .Co domain name
It’s not .com. Every once in a while I see a .co domain name around town. One of my favorites is mow.co, which is used by a local lawn mowing service. I was flipping through the Angie’s List magazine last night and saw an ad for a local w...
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Check out what this company did with its .Co domain name
It’s not .com. Every once in a while I see a .co domain name around town. One of my favorites is mow.co, which is used by a local lawn mowing service. I was flipping through the Angie’s List magazine last night and saw an ad for a local w...
Discussion
February 11, 2014, 7:36 pm
Domain Name Wire
.Club holds winter domain name auction on Sedo
New TLD to hold auction during its sunrise period. New top level domain name .club is holding its first domain name auction on Sedo. The auction features “winter sports” domain names (really it’s Olympic themed, but there are tradem...
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.Club holds winter domain name auction on Sedo
New TLD to hold auction during its sunrise period. New top level domain name .club is holding its first domain name auction on Sedo. The auction features “winter sports” domain names (really it’s Olympic themed, but there are tradem...
Discussion
February 11, 2014, 4:52 pm
Domain Name Wire
New top level domain name lawsuit dismissed but leaves door open for ACPA for TLDs
Judge grants motion to dismiss top level domain dispute. A federal district judge has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit brought by Del Monte International against Del Monte Corporation over the top level domain name .delmonte. In doing so, the court also lef...
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New top level domain name lawsuit dismissed but leaves door open for ACPA for TLDs
Judge grants motion to dismiss top level domain dispute. A federal district judge has dismissed (pdf) a lawsuit brought by Del Monte International against Del Monte Corporation over the top level domain name .delmonte. In doing so, the court also lef...
Discussion
February 11, 2014, 4:02 pm
Domain Name Wire
Reminder: the top level domain name matters in a UDRP
Panels will not always ignore the top level domain name in UDRP cases. With niche top level domain names like .clothing and .plumbing now on the market, I’d like to clear up a common misconception about UDRP and whether the top level domain nam...
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Reminder: the top level domain name matters in a UDRP
Panels will not always ignore the top level domain name in UDRP cases. With niche top level domain names like .clothing and .plumbing now on the market, I’d like to clear up a common misconception about UDRP and whether the top level domain nam...
Discussion
February 11, 2014, 2:03 pm
